Actually, I agree that they have emotion - and cognition.

One of the good things about this law is that it protects doctors as well as patients. By having a patient agree to assisted suicide by Rx, the doc is absolved of malpractice and unnecessary intrution by the Gov’t by prescribing increasing levels of pain meds.

An interesting proposition:

Notice that I did not say that doctors were KNOWINGLY making a buck. They were UNKNOWINGLY influenced to make a buck - that unknowing part is the issue.

Sadly, this kind of bill is necessary to protect patients.

This is why you check the pic, name, car and plate number before getting in. It’s in the app when the order is placed.

As a concierge I’ve had to chase these “jitney” drivers off before. Thanks to you for reporting it - tho may I suggest also taking a picture of the man and his car plate and emailing or tweeting your local police as well?

You get in a strangers car when you ride in a taxi, too.

I agree that this “looks” sad - but I also recognize that quite a bit of that is me ascribing the same emotions and motivations to apes as I do to humans. Apes sleep, lounge around and groom each other for most of the day. Here’s another humanizing way to think about it - is a child “sad” because they have to watch…

Very! I’ve used Sugru for several bra repairs, includeing underwires. I also use it for a rubber coating on the straps to help prevent them from slipping off my shoulders, and as a backing for poorly placed strap sliders that scratch my skin. I’ve even been able to use sugru to get a color match.

While this may work for a temp fix, try using Sugru for a permanent one.

TED has a marvelous talk on how they train rats to find the mines. Even better, they’re now training rats to sniff out tuberculosis in the lab, which has the potential to save millions people every year.

Yeah the little swimmies sure can, but that’s in the lab. Spermatozoa in men is stored in the testes outside the body’s interior because it needs a cooler environment to survive for a few days. If the boys are being “stored” in a very hot, relatively acidic environment that contains a lot of spermacide, the shelf life…

Yep, the Sponge is a great product, but as a former user, I can tell you it’s got some drawbacks, most of the same as the diaphragm.

Sure, they need a script for Viagra. But the FDA positively rushed Viagra and ED pills to market, (“damn the side effects, full mast ahead”) spite of the side effect of death, and in comparison to female Viagra, which has taken years to get FDA approval. And the Sponge, which is basically an OTC riff off the diaphram,…

Just a odd question -

Yep, that was to promote a vaccum seal during the insertion.

Tho’ even insurance, medicaid and medicare is getting hip to the $cript $cam. For those of you reading this who don’t know, many drug companies will try NOT to get their products available as OTC, as this usually allows Pharma to dip into the deep pockets of insurance companies, which pass the cost along to consumers…

Though it amazes me that people will happily down Tylenol because of marketing, ignoring the inserts that warn of acute liver failure. It’s also one of the few OTC drugs in the U.S. to come with a Black Box Warning (the highest level of caution in drug handouts).